Cracking The Silk Dress Cryptogram Hidden In Bennett’s Bronze Bustle | out of @UManitoba, published by Cryptologia

by @grrlscientist

#weather #codes #cryptograms #antiques #VintageCostumes #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/01/11/cracking-the-silk-dress-cryptogram-hidden-in-bennetts-bronze-bustle/

OMG!! look what just arrived: a monstrously thick paperback, The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, that i am SOOO excited to read! (& so lucky to get a copy of since it was first published in 2013)

#MustRead #books #nonfiction #indigenous #Brazil🇧🇷 https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674724686

and woot! this book just arrived today too: Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

i've been so homesick for Tokyo recently, so this beautiful book may make me feel better

#books #MustRead https://oroeditions.com/product/emergent-tokyo

YIPPEE YI YAY

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh, just arrived today, thanks to a follower who volunteered to send it from the US

SOOO EXCITED TO READ IT!

#books #MustRead https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo22265507.html

#AmReading this incredibly inspirational, thoughtful & hopeful #book about sea level rise due to #ClimateCrisis by rosanna xia, California Against The Sea

#MustRead #environment #coast #beaches #California

https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/california-against-the-sea/

Polly Dips Her Crackers In Water, Like People Dipping Theirs In Coffee | University of Vienna & University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, published by Royal Society Publishing Biology Letters

by @grrlscientist

#parrots🦜 #ornithology #innovation #food #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/12/29/polly-dips-her-crackers-in-water-like-people-dipping-theirs-in-coffee/

What Gives Cheddar Cheese Its Flavor? It Took Scientists A Year To Find Out | Utrecht University & Wageningen University, published by NatureComms

by @grrlscientist

#cheddar #cheese🧀 #microbiology🧫 #microbiome #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/12/27/what-gives-cheddar-cheese-its-flavor-it-took-scientists-a-year-to-find-out/

Are All Gifts Mentioned In ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’ Actually Birds?

This idea has recently gone viral, but is it true? If so, who are these remarkable wild birds, according to those who know them best?

by @grrlscientist

#birds #ornithology #christmas #holidays #SciComm

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/12/21/are-all-gifts-mentioned-in-the-twelve-days-of-christmas-actually-birds/

Bizarre Half-Male, Half-Female Bird Captured On Film In Colombia | University of Otago, published by Journal of Field #Ornithology

by @grrlscientist

#birds #birding #SciComm🧪

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/12/14/bizarre-half-male-half-female-bird-captured-on-film-in-colombia/

Which Birds Are Most Likely To Freak Out Due To Fireworks Shows? out of University of Amsterdam, published by Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

by @grrlscientist

#birds #fireworks🎆 #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/12/12/which-birds-are-most-likely-to-freak-out-due-to-fireworks-shows/

Falklands Falcons Are As Brainy As Cockatoos

A recent study in falcons highlights commonalities in #ecology that underlie the #evolution of innovative thinking in both #corvids & #cockatoos | study published by Royal Society Publishing #BiologyLetters

by @grrlscientist

#cognition #innovation #ornithology #SciComm 🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/12/11/falklands-falcons-are-as-brainy-as-cockatoos/

Migratory Songbirds’ Balancing Act Between Foraging And Longevity, out of AlleghenyCollege, published by Royal Society ProcB

by @grrlscientist

#birds #ornithology #Evolution #Ecology #Morphology #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/12/08/migratory-songbirds-balancing-act-between-foraging-and-longevity/

Electric Eels’ Shocking Ability To Alter The Genetics Of Nearby Animals | out of Nagoya University published by PeerJ

by @grrlscientist

#ElectricEels #evolution #ecology #genetics #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/12/06/electric-eels-shocking-ability-to-alter-the-genetics-of-nearby-animals/

hey everyone, look what just arrived: How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small, thanks to carmen the amazing & the good peeps at PrincetonUniversityPress

#books #philosophy #AnimalRights #vegan https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691240435/how-to-care-about-animals

wow! i did a thing this year! (i didn't do as well as last year, when i was in the top 1% of learners, alas ... )

#LanguageLearning #Duolingo2023

now reading The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh, thanks to celsie the magnificent & the good people at the University of Chicago Press

it's beautifully written & gently pulls the reader into a fascinating story

#books #amReading https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo125517349.html

How Dinosaurs May Have Influenced Human Aging | out of University of Birmingham, published by BioEssays

by @grrlscientist

#dinosaurs🦖 #aging #cancer #evolution #genetics #ecology #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/11/30/how-dinosaurs-may-have-influenced-human-aging/

Like People, European Parrots Do Have Their Own Regional Dialects | out of Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published by Behavioral Ecology

by @grrlscientist

#parrots #learning #culture #SciComm  https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/11/29/like-people-european-parrots-do-have-their-own-regional-dialects/

wheeee! i did a thing today

#language #learning #duolingo

just started reading this huge doorstop of a book: The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich (2022, PrincetonUniversityPress)

#AmReading #books📚 #History🏰 #Pandemic #nonfiction #NonfictionNovember https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215662/the-world-the-plague-made